The Lisbon agenda (2000) aimed to make the EU
“the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the
world” by reforming in-depth European research and innovation systems.
The Centre d’Alembert seminar 2014-2015 sought to explore the changes
induced in the French academic system by this reform. Among these
changes there has been an unprecedented development of competitive
project funding schemes as opposed to continuous and stable funding
of public research organizations. Studies on the effects of such
policies originating from the political and social sciences, as
well as statements by scientists highlighted a number of negative
effects: generalized and exacerbated competition as well as permanent
job insecurity, especially for the younger generation of scientists,
weakens the research collectives, generates short-term scientific
strategies and instability, leads to suffering at work and risks
compromising creative and original research. The seminar also showed
how the effects of these policies could compromise the very objectives
put forward (answering social needs through more interdisciplinary
research, encouraging innovation, developing fruitful collaboration
with the private sector, promoting excellency).

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